The Bargain Thread

DaveLong · 2009-04-29T07:22:02.000Z

Omniscia:

Why doesn’t Best Buy ever run decent PC game sales as frequently as they used to? Seems like since Circuit City went under, they just aren’t trying anymore. The Sims 2 and Bejeweled Twist? Pshaw.

Why should they bother? With the closing of Circuit City they’re basically uncontested in most markets. There simply isn’t any competition.

MSUSteve · 2009-04-29T07:25:32.000Z

Dave Long:

Why should they bother? With the closing of Circuit City they’re basically uncontested in most markets. There simply isn’t any competition.

That’s true. Target rarely runs good deals on games and Gamestop never does.

Omniscia · 2009-04-29T07:29:23.000Z

Dave Long:

Why should they bother? With the closing of Circuit City they’re basically uncontested in most markets. There simply isn’t any competition.

You’re right, and perhaps they shouldn’t bother. But I’m sure I’m not the only one who would buy more frequently from them if they did.

I can’t even remember the last PC game I bought from them…

unbongwah · 2009-04-29T07:38:24.000Z

FWIW, Best Buy does have the occasional good PC deal, but oftentimes they’re not advertised. E.g., they had Stalker Clear Sky for $10 a while back. Also, they offer coupons as part of their Reward Zone Gamers Club which can sometimes be combined with sale prices to get a good deal: e.g., a couple months ago you could get Red Alert 3 for $10 on one Sunday. Their current coupon is for $10 off FEAR 2 (PC), Godfather II (360 & PS3), MadWorld, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.

shift6 · 2009-04-29T09:07:57.000Z

MSUSteve:

Amazon has a Gold Box Deal going for the complete Babylon 5 series on DVD for $105.49. It’s normally $299.98.

Sold! Mostly so I can rewatch the Ivanova sex scene over and over and over again.

wisefool · 2009-04-29T09:28:25.000Z

Acts of Sacrifice

seventimessix · 2009-04-29T11:47:50.000Z

Amazon has the 360 wireless adapter for $75.99 and a black or white 360 wireless controller for $31.99. Both of these prices are the lowest I’ve seen them.

Jorune · 2009-04-29T12:18:16.000Z

MSUSteve:

Amazon has a Gold Box Deal going for the complete Babylon 5 series on DVD for $105.49. It’s normally $299.98.

ARGH!!! I missed it. It’s already back at 200 bucks!!!

Jorune

MSUSteve · 2009-04-29T12:21:55.000Z

Yeah, those Gold Box deals last a day at most.

malkav11 · 2009-04-29T15:46:12.000Z

shift6:

Sold! Mostly so I can rewatch the Ivanova sex scene over and over and over again.

You can probably do that on Youtube.

Omniscia · 2009-04-29T17:33:10.000Z

unbongwah:

FWIW, Best Buy does have the occasional good PC deal, but oftentimes they’re not advertised. E.g., they had Stalker Clear Sky for $10 a while back. Also, they offer coupons as part of their Reward Zone Gamers Club which can sometimes be combined with sale prices to get a good deal: e.g., a couple months ago you could get Red Alert 3 for $10 on one Sunday. Their current coupon is for $10 off FEAR 2 (PC), Godfather II (360 & PS3), MadWorld, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.

Yeah, I check that on occasion. And I ordered Stalker: Clear Sky during that sale. It still hasn’t arrived.

Jafisob · 2009-04-29T19:45:43.000Z

Omniscia:

Yeah, I check that on occasion. And I ordered Stalker: Clear Sky during that sale. It still hasn’t arrived.

Same here. BB also failed to deliver Mount and Blade to me in the same fashion.

No b&m sales and piss poor customer service in their online business. I guess I go with steam for future purchases. <blank> BB.

Omniscia · 2009-04-29T20:01:42.000Z

As soon as it does arrive I’ll just return it, anyway. If I don’t cancel it before hand.

Got it from NewEgg for $3.

ZekeDMS · 2009-04-30T03:41:33.000Z

Newegg is selling off a decent title set for about 10 bucks a piece.

Full set here

Free shipping on all of them, for the non-clicky the list is:
Crackdown
PGR 4
FFXI (X360)
NWN 2:Mask of the Betrayer
NWN 2:Storm of Zehir
Quake Wars (PC)-$5.99 (hey, that might be worth it)
Test Drive Unlimited (PC)
CSI super pack (great if you hate yourself)
CSI Hard Evidence (PC, also if you hate yourself)
Lost Planet (PC)
House of the Dead 2/3
Avatar:The Burning Earth (Wii)
Tenchu:Shadow Assassins (Wii)
Field Commander

So…it’s a list of horrible to pretty good, then.

Omniscia · 2009-04-30T06:06:51.000Z

Hey, Storm of Zehir is $13.99!

MSUSteve · 2009-04-30T06:16:38.000Z

GOG.com is offering 25% off a few Apogee titles.

GOG.com:

Until Monday, May 4 at 11:59 EDT you can grab Blake Stone: Alens of Gold, Blake Stone: Planet Strike and Rise of the Triad for only $4.49 each! To receive the discount add the games you want to buy to your cart and proceed to the payment screen. There you have to enter the promo code: APOGEE during checkout and you’ll receive a discount on the titles participating in the promotion. It’s not a bundle promo, so you receive the discount for one, two or all three games!

They had me at Rise of the Triad.

fuzzyslug · 2009-04-30T06:26:27.000Z

BigFishGames is giving away a bunch of stuff, including Fairway Solitaire, which is excellent. Free and awesome go good together.

Bad_Neighbor · 2009-04-30T07:30:17.000Z

L4D will be free tomorrow.

Rock8man · 2009-04-30T07:33:41.000Z

Cat Master:

L4D will be free tomorrow.

Sweet!

Finally my PC copy of L4D has some hope of getting played. Since it’ll be free for everyone, I’m going to suggest to my regular L4D friday night crew of friends that they download something called “Steam” and try playing L4D on the PC for once. I think they think of the PC as something that exclusively meant for turn-based strategy games and real-time strategy games though, so it might still be a tough sell.

Demon_G_Sides · 2009-04-30T07:55:14.000Z

MSUSteve:

GOG.com is offering 25% off a few Apogee titles.

They had me at Rise of the Triad.

Good lord Blake Stone. Must resist.